The indoor and outdoor exhibition at Agribusiness East Africa (agri-eastafrica.com) featured a number of leading solutions providers of innovative agriculture related products. Delegates and visitors had the opportunity to meet with these companies and others to discuss their needs.

Innovation and technology were at the forefront of the exhibition where some of the leading suppliers in the industry will display their services and solutions. Over 40 leading local and international companies showcased their solutions, including Impo, Monsanto, Lonagro, John Deere, Syngenta, Afrivet, Ari Trading Post and FMD. The expo also features a German pavilion with well-known agri suppliers including Claas, Grimme and Pottinger.

Twenty years down the line, ANAFE membership, which has grown to over 130 institutions by 2014, continues
to receive numerous requests to support development and implementation of agribusiness curricula with a view
to produce experts who can adequately manage current opportunities and challenges in agribusiness. Due to its
critical role in socio-economic development, agribusiness has generated a lot of interest in academic and business
circles.

Hence, agribusiness curriculum development is a strong component of two programs that ANAFE has been
jointly implementing with partners. These are:

HELPING farmers in Africa grow their businesses is the aim of a new online tool being launched by a Cambridge start-up.

Patrick Guyver and Hamish Drewry have set up AGRIinsight, which brings together information from a range of sources and presents it in an easy-to-understand format for businesses working all over the African continent.

AGRIinsight is an online platform which helps users to connect, collaborate and invest in agribusiness in Sub Saharan Africa. It does this by giving them the ability to:

overlay and visualise relevant information

discover new business opportunities

make better informed decisions.

It is currently being tested by users in Tanzania and Ghana, and is set to launch later this year.

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The Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (Phase II) is to build joint African-European multi-stakeholder partnerships in agricultural research for development. PAEPARD II nurtures partnerships to increase the quantity and quality of joint proposals (leading to more funded initiatives).

PAEPARD II not only focuses on FP7, but includes other European Commission (EDF, EC Budget through the FSTP) and bilateral funding instruments supporting ARD that might be mobilized for emerging ARD partnerships.